The delightfully named Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was American, born in Pennsylvania with a seemingly natural facility for producing melodious songs and piano pieces that had an instantaneous appeal for listeners. Among them was Narcissus, a piano miniature that became famously popular, though its success was actually outshone by Nevin’s song The Rosary which sold six million copies in thirty years and made him a rich man. Sadly he did not live to enjoy the fruits of Mighty lak’ a rose, composed the year he died.